Marketing Associate Position - Marketing Associate Sysco Employee Review

2.0
Feb 16, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are some great people that work here. You can make some excellent relationships with your customers. You can run your day how you see fit. You're not stuck in an office all day (or at all) if you're a sales rep.

Cons

Sales reps work 7 days a week. Major turnaround. They are always hiring more sales reps. Newbies generally don't last long. The work load is heavy and there is high pressure on performance. An email was mistakenly sent to all employees in 2017 that stated that the company was meeting their operational plan because they were reducing the commissions being paid to their sales reps (without reps knowledge). Long term reps are now leaving. It's no surprise. You're expected to raise your customers prices any way you can.

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2.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can make money but it all depends on the orders you get, how fast you can go, how long you can maintain that pace without getting burned out. Definitely a young mans sport, as the do refer to you as "industrial athletes."

Cons

Like many industries the hours can be long. For the ones who don't make much on running above rate then you can make up for it in hours. If you soak the hours and run you can definitely make some big money. The turn over rate is extremely high there, even in management. I used to be proud of the union but the teamsters in Cleveland are completely worthless, I would bet they are getting paid under the table to not fight for contract negotiations. When I was there the contract expired and they barely fought for anything, on voting day they literally said they wont back us up if we don't pass this contract....so consider that when you want to work for this place. Also the equipment is so old and broken that people were taking the scanners home just so they could have a good one for the next night.

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